October 2026
219 pages
4h 41m
English
Overview
Master Apple’s Photos app on your Mac, iPad, and iPhone!
Version 5.0, updated October 9, 2026
This book introduces you to the many features of Apple’s Photos app on Mac, iPad, and iPhone, with advice on navigating the interface, editing your images, searching your library, syncing with iCloud Photos, sharing photos with others, and creating photo books.
Get to know Apple’s Photos app and how best to use it to import, manage, edit, sync, and share your photos in macOS 27 Golden Gate and iOS 27/iPadOS 27! Following the expert advice of Jason Snell, publisher of Six Colors and former lead editor at Macworld, you’ll learn how to navigate Photos like a pro!
This version of the book is strictly about Photos in Apple's version 27 operating systems. However, all owners of this version can also download the previous version of the book, which covered macOS 26 Tahoe, iOS 26, and iPadOS 26.
In this book, you’ll learn how to:
- Import photos from cameras, mobile devices, or memory cards
- Navigate the Photos interface
- Use Apple Intelligence (on supported devices) to remove unwanted elements from your photos, reframe them, or extend them
- View, edit, or disable Live Photos
- Organize your library by using enhanced search features, adding metadata, building albums, and creating smart albums
- Locate and remove duplicate photos
- Search for text, faces, and other objects in photos
- Get information about live events (such as concerts and sporting events) in your photos
- Edit your photos using quick fixes like cropping, applying filters, and fixing red-eye and rotation problems
- Use advanced editing techniques within Photos and edit using external apps like Photoshop
- Manage your photo collection using the Memories and Collections features, and get summary views
- Sync and share albums or individual photos and videos with iCloud
- Use iCloud Shared Photos to share a separate library with up to five other people
- Work with multiple Photos libraries
- Show off your photos on an iPhone or iPad, including customizing your lock screen
- Use the Camera app for iPhone and iPad to capture photos and videos
- View your photos on an Apple TV, and use them for wallpaper and widgets on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch
- Share your photos via social media, export them from Photos, or turn them into slideshows
- Create printed objects (such as books and calendars) from your photos using third-party services
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